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"Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a?blue marble,??a blue pale dot,? or, as Chauc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2017.
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| Colección: | Object lessons.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Chapter 1â#x80;#x82;Prologue: Genesis; Chapter 2â#x80;#x82;Orbit; Chapter 3â#x80;#x82;Ground (Why Earth?); Chapter 4â#x80;#x82;Scale (Barriers to Understanding); Chapter 5â#x80;#x82;Radiance (Earthâ#x80;#x99;s Beauty); Chapter 6â#x80;#x82;Gravity (Earthâ#x80;#x99;s Pull); Chapter 7â#x80;#x82;Interlude: A Hike around Piestewa Peak; Chapter 8â#x80;#x82;Imagination; A Facebook status update that became a blog post; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Notes; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 8; Index.